Lubricants Solutions for Automotive Components Manufacturing
The automotive industry is accelerating at a rapid pace. While innovative designs and alternative fuels may take centre stage, businesses depend on reliable and high-quality automotive components to guarantee product performance. The automotive components that make up the vehicles demand protection in order to perform. They demand protection from the high-pressure and high-temperature operating environments that they are consistently exposed to, ensuring the vehicle in question can perform effectively and efficiently at the peak of its potential.
Solutions in this field are similarly varied, with a range of options available that help translate component protection into vehicle performance and efficiency, such as:
- Innovative initial-fill lubricants for automotive drivelines, chassis, interiors and bodies
- Greases to protect bearings from extreme temperatures, heavy loads and contaminated conditions
- Thermal fluids to help cool vital components such as the battery in an electric vehicle
Lubrication also plays an important role within the factory walls. If productivity drops in the factory, whether due to unexpected equipment downtime, inefficient processes or inadequate management, the ramifications can be disastrous.
Efficiency. Productivity. Uptime. All vital markers of success in the automotive components manufacturing field, but none are possible without the correct equipment protection. And driving this protection are your fluids, oils and greases.
- Hydraulic Fluids – Put a stop to energy loss from your hydraulic pumps with fluids built on gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology.
- Compressor Oils – Choose long oil life. Choose high system efficiency. Choose an oil that has been developed in close co-operation with customers and equipment makers.
- Gear Oils – Your factory depends on uninterrupted operation. Make sure your gears keep turning with an oil that extends your oil-drain intervals.
And though the outcomes of each are distinctly different, as are the products that they rely on, they both require maintenance that can ensure maximum:
- Efficiency – whether energy efficiency or fuel efficiency
- Productivity – in terms of output potential
- Protection – from wear, corrosion, and downtime or breakdown
Whether it’s the finished components or the factory production line, two key qualities are central to the operations of automotive component manufacturers: reliability and efficiency. Both ladder up to overall productivity and both can be enhanced by effective lubrication.
The automotive industry is an international enterprise and so effective automotive component manufacture requires global collaboration. With so many moving parts at every step of the process, partnerships can be a vital tool for companies that are feeling over-stretched and under-capacity.
But partnerships are only effective if they can help bridge gaps, connect dots, and strengthen areas that were previously limiting potential.
As a truly international organisation, Shell Lubricant Solutions has experts in the lubrication of critical equipment based in more than 90 countries worldwide. All of whom contribute to the delivery of our high-quality fluids.
But fluid selection is just the first step in the maintenance process. For extended performance, it must then be accompanied by expert services, like oil condition monitoring such as Shell LubeAnalyst, which adds value by:
- Identifying potential oil or equipment failures before becoming critical
- Extending lubricant life and thus reducing change-out downtimes and procurement costs
- Reducing risks and contributing to safe and reliable operations
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The Shell LubeAdvisor service is delivered through highly trained Shell technical staff consisting of office-based technical helpdesks and field-based lubrication engineers. In addition, there are a number of helpful and convenient tools for you to use, with the complete Shell LubeAdvisor service offering you a wealth of engineering, technical and application knowledge.